USS Oklahoma (BB-37), the only ship of the United States Navy to ever be named for the 46th state, was a World War I-era battleship and the second of two ships in her class; her sister ship was Nevada. She, along with her sister, were the first two U.S. warships to use oil fuel instead of coal.

USS Oklahoma BB-37. Oklahoma had a chequered reputation between the wars courtesy of her reciprocating triple-expansion engines which frequently gave trouble and degraded her speed and reliability compared to the other 11 turbine- and turbo-electric drive ships that formed the main battleline of the U.S. Fleet between the wars. Her perpetual status as a private ship was evidenced by the lack of build-up in her superstructure that gave her masts a relatively taller and more elegant…

14 in Nevada class battleship USS Oklahoma pictured on manoeuvres in the 1930s - this pair were the US Navy's first oil fired dreadnoughts. She capsized at Pearl Harbor under Japanese air attack on 7 December 1941 with the loss of over 400 of her crew, and unlike most of the ships present that day was too badly damaged ever to return to service.